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My laptop (MSI GS75 Stealth 9sf) came with Win 10. Eventually I upgraded to Windows 11 on a second hard drive. I often do that so I can take my time setting up the new system while having access to the working old system. Anyway, It's been a few years and I haven't used the Win10 install in...

Got this answer from the laptop manufacturer tech-support in response to my question. "Yes. When the partitions are deleted in a drive, all the files including the OS are wiped. It is fine to return this computer with no OS installed." What is the easiest way to do this?

I bought a new laptop which after some difficulties I'm returning. I questioned the tech support about wiping the drive to remove my personal info. He responded that "the the best way to remove you data is to delete the partition."I just installed my software on the new machine and began...

My MSI GS75 Stealth laptop died and I've been sorting it for a few days. I got it up and running and thought everything was working. However, when I opened FIREFOX, most (thought not all) of my bookmarked sites give the response, "Secure connection failed". (Opening in Edge is the same) Then one...

Ok. So The other machines cannot see the new Laptop on the network, but it can see and access the other two. New LAPTOP can see and access the DESKTOP and SURFACE. DESKTOP can see and access the SURFACE but does not see the LAPTOP SURFACE can see and access the DESKTOP but does not see the...

Thanks for the responses.

This is my home network with only me an 3 computers on it. The other two show up in the new laptop network. But clicking on them request the id and password. I never enter the requested credentials. I did switch off Password sharing. What else should I do?

Bitmaps and some other files display, but PDFs don't. I have followed most answers I've found to no avail. I am not using and Adobe products and anything that relates to that is not applicable.

JohnGalt, I reinstalled Onedrive and got the options to select what folders to back up. I deselected everything, and now the desktop works as expected. Thanks for your help. I would have never known to look into the Onedrive. All the best.

First, thanks for you efforts. I had nothing like what you show. Searching for options were folders are selected for backup produced nothing. At no time in the win 11 install did backup questions arise. As a last effort, I just uninstalled Onedrive. It's gone but the problem persists. The path...

I can't find this nowhere. When I started onedrive it began syncing. I paused that. But whether started from the tray icon, or from Start, the setting available do not have a Manage Backup button.

Hmm? I try not to, but on the Win 11 install on this laptop, there was some onedrive shenanigans. I do not uses Onedrive, and do not want to. However, after the Win 11 install it seemed to be enabled, and messeged me that "onedrive is nearly full, buy more space." At times I see "onedrive" as...

I have three Win 11 machines on my home network, a Desktop, Laptop, and Surface Pro 8. Which shows up at any give time on each machine's network is erratic, but more confusing is that when I try to navigate to the "desktop" of the laptop, \\Laptop\c\Users\Muser\Desktop from EITHER the...

Got it. My laptop has 3 m.2 drive slots. (2 NVMe pci, and 1 SATA) I'll keep Virtual disk in mind if I decide to update my 13" laptop. thanks again for all the help.

Thanks again. I did the version mentioned by NavyLCDR in post #6 before I saw the other posts. That is what I'd done back in the day of XP/7, and 7/10. I did have the problem with the boot files associated with the old disk, and I forgot how I solved it. No idea what vhdx files are? I'm in no...